My Love from the Star (2013)

Even tho i really loved this drama, it ended not being such a big deal for me, the impact factor was just not there.

I loved the story, was well written and it was so much fun to watch and i must confess if they had another ending in mind than the one they actually gave to the show, it would have ruined the whole thing for me and made it impossible to even like the drama. Thankfully they gave it a proper ending so i’m happy about that :D

Great actors in this one, nice chemistry, very funny and light to watch, the female lead was awesome, she did an amazing job and she is such a charismatic actress! It was my first time seeing her acting on a drama and i really liked her versatility, she is just like a mood every single time i see her haha love it! Her male co star was also spot on and he is such a treat for sore eyes too XD

Don't get me wrong, this is not a bad review, i really liked the drama and i quite enjoyed watching it. It actually makes you think about life and what is beyond us and how tiny we are in this big universe filled with stars. This drama touched me but not in the way i hoped it would? It's weird to even try to explain it XD
What i meant with my comment was that it lacked that memorable factor to keep me attached to the story and characters to a deeper level. It was romantic and funny, yes it was, it warmed my heart but on the other hand some things were a bit off too.

I still strongly recomend it tho. Watch it because you will like it and spend a good time watching it :D

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As a fantasy fan this just ain't it.

I don't write reviews but the sheer preposterousness of this drama compelled me to do it. The following contains spoilers, possibly major? Depends on your perspective.

Story:
The alien's power does not make sense at all and it almost drove me crazy. Do Min Joon is supposed to be an alien from whatever planet, right? Well no, it's more like he's Son Oh Gong. I am not sure what the writer was thinking because since when does being an alien mean you can stop time and teleport, not to mention use telekinesis? Do Min Joon should've been an eastern mythology/magic character if they wanted to add all of that because it didn't help the story later on. In eastern mythology drama's God's will or a curse or something may hinder the lead from using their powers and it makes sense. But in this.....it just is? Frustratingly, the alien dies if he kills a human, which is so convenient to prolong this drama's washed up story. It isn't explained why either, because it can't be explained if he's an alien! Why would some heavenly force kill him if he kills a human? What connection is that? How is a human different to an ant to him, since he's alien. What law is creating this problem? It's complete bull. It is like saying "you will die if you kill a fly using your bare hands", but who's going to kill you? Is your hand going to snitch to God or mother nature or science, that you killed a fly with your hands instead of a using a fly swatter or gloves?
Ok fine, he can't kill anyone because of this ridiculous law, but he can cripple or injure right? Nah, he'll just run around giving hollow threats and wait for the worst to happen! He could even lock the villain in an isolated chamber but nope. For this reason, it would've been smarter to make the villain an alien too. But I guess the writer didn't think at all.
To make matters even worse, this guy can go poof into fairy dust if he stays on Earth forever. How does that work? Again, this isn't a magic show, it's sci-fi. It would work if they said something like "Earth's atmosphere contains toxins and he's been inhaling them for 400 years so he'll die if he stays any longer", but no they just think it's ok to make vanishing a thing. Is this guy an Angel or something? Like I said, the writer doesn't know how to write aliens/sci-fi realistically and utterly fails at even creating a semi-realistic version. It's almost as if the Screenwriter did whatever pleased her the most, without meaningful thinking.

They spend episode 1-16 in the one-sided love/distance crush part. There's just no progress and when you think there finally is, they crush it instantly. It's a worse back and forth than A Korean Odyssey. The writer focuses so much on driving a wedge between them all the way along the journey, by episode 15 they're still haven't graced mutual flirting. It becomes a mental chore to watch them bicker like kids. So the romance in this is a real headache. There's no happy period of mutual love in between like usual. It's infighting, one sided love, mutual love but distanced, noble sacrifice and finally mutual love. The whole thing is just an annoying tease until episode 16+.

Cheon Song Yi is so pitiful, her character is completely useless and a total airhead. She's not annoying like others say, it's just sad that she isn't given anything meaningful to do. She can't even do simple things like take care of a sick person at first, the writer doesn't give her any self-respect.
Whereas Do Min Joon is stuck between being a closet p*dophile and an outright douche. He's so aggressive towards Song Yi, even when he's started liking her, he just shouts at her angrily.

The drama doesn't progress at all until about half way through, for a 21 episode drama it wasted a lot of time dragging things out. They could have explored Song Yi's celebrity struggle more, gave Min Joon something to do other than run to Song Yi's rescue and act elusive for 11 episodes or more aliens. There is nothing interesting to keep you going apart from the alien action scenes and a deep, resentful longing for the nonsense between the leads to stop and a relationship to develop. The villain goes about doing whatever he wants because of previously explained rubbish. And almost all the side characters are rivals or evil or selfish, whatever negative. The entire story is built on Song Yi not finding out about Min Joon being an alien, they try to hide it for an unnecessary amount of time to keep the show going. And why doesn't this amazing alien that can travel through space have any means of communication with home? These guys are so high tech that they can travel light years in UFOs. They must have advanced phones or help beacons. Furthermore, the ending is bittersweet so it doesn't even have that going for it as a positive...

Casting is fine, apart from yoo in na who just can't act evil enough. And the villains hairstyle needs some fixing.

The standards in 2013 must have been supremely low, because there's nothing special about this drama. Perhaps the amazing special effects and casting lead to this much of an overrating, which makes sense because the sfx looked great. But any modern fantasy drama can outdo the story within 3-4 episodes. This can never be a 10/10 with all the bad writing, plot holes, hollow characters and milked out drama. The pacing of this show had its brakes on 24/7, preventing meaningful advances. I wish the writer had got some advice/opinions from peers because clearly this isn't her best work. LOTBS and CLOY are much better in every department, even though they all stink near the end (seems she never learned how to get away from this one troll ending type...). Overall I do not recommend this show, it's an agonizing waste of 21 hours.

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HAH!!! After Searching for so long and dropping and holding so many dramas i finally was able to see a gr8 supernatural drama, satisfied with every episode and watched it in 2.5 days....

Because of Kim Soo Hyun i started this drama ^^ and later found myself totally falling for the actress. her acting was superb. i really liked her character and the way she executed it. Kim Soo Hyun was as Gr8 as expected.. i fell for him more but still the female protagonist was AWESOME!!

From the very first episode i was hooked - laughing, crying and experiencing all type of emotions just like the actors in the series. All the scenes felt more great because of the OST(s).

Even thou its a story about a Alien landing and trying to adapt on a earth but it was totally told from a romantic view not a Sci- fi. This was the thing which i liked the most but still it would have been much better if some of the things could have been explained a little more clearly and if a little more background on our alien was given. There were many things that i personally wanted to know . But i think its common in K- dramas and it also did not made me like it less.
Leaving my personal inquisitions aside, everything was PERFECT.

I mostly don't watch dramas again : 1. i have many more drams in my list
2. and i don't know i couldn't make myself rewatch it for a
second time. i feel that i'll get boring
But
i think i have to watch this drama again because im still not full of this. I dont know for how many times i'll rewatch it but i'll for sure drag a friend of mine and make them watch this wonderful drama.

My only regret(not exactly"regret") and my reason for deducting 0.5 marks from the story was it would have been much much better if the ending could have been the way i wanted it to be. But i was also satisfied with the actual ending.

Overall: Watch this wonderful drama if u are looking : for a great romantic and supernatural story
: for great writing and perfect till the ending
: great acting and superb cute looks of Kim Soo
Hyun.
: great side stories/ actors and back story

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*NO SPOILERS*

Just finished "You who came from the stars" one of the most famous dramas of this year.
It was a really good drama, but I have to say that I found it somehow overrated .The plot was not so surprising and it had many cliches.
Also except from the leads the other characters,were characters I have seen many times before in korean dramas.For example Yoo In Na as "Yoo Se Mi" is the typical two-faced girl that annoys you all the time or Shin Sung Rok as Lee Jae Kyun,the necessary bad guy of a melodrama.
But despite the cliches , I think "You who came from the stars" is a drama worth watching especially for the good acting.
Kim Soo Hyun did a good job as Do Mi Joon,but the star of the show was Chun Song Yi (in my opinion she was the whole show).Jun Ji Hyun amazing acting skills turned the typical sassy lead,who might have been annoying,into a likable role you couldn't get enough from.
Not a masterpiece but definetly a very good drama.

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This drama had two stories; the Cheong Song Yi~Do Min Joon love story and the Lee Jae Kyung crime story. One of them I liked, the other not so much.

The story I liked:

You would expect me to like the love story, right? But that's not the one I liked. The only reason why I saw this drama to the end was because of Jae Kyung's story. His character fascinated me from the beginning. And parts relating to his story were the only ones that didn't bore me.

Jae Kyung was so creepy and Shin Sung Rok played him so well! I loved the detective (Se Mi's brother)! The actor played him very well and this whole story was just so interesting to watch!

*Minor spoilers ahead*
I'm so glad that the writer used the "Monsters are born" theme rather than the "Monsters are created" one. I really wanted Jae Kyung to be evil. 'No guilt for my actions' kind of evil. He was already scary and all through the drama I kept wishing that they wouldn't justify his actions by saying that some tragic accident made him like this. So I was glad that this went the way I wanted to.
*End of spoiler*

I only wish this story would have been dealt with more. That there would have been more of this story in the drama. But that wasn't possible because the main story was the love story...

The story that was meh:

I should have liked the love story... The acting was amazing and I really liked the characters as well. I felt really guilty for yawning through Song Yi-Min Joon romantic scenes. But they bored me. I think maybe that was more my fault than their's... There were some scenes that I liked though. The beginning scenes were funny and cute. You know, before they swore their undying love for each other. The kiss scenes were pretty good too. But I got really bored with them in the second half of the drama.

I wish they would've showed how Do Min Joon's planet was. At least given a little more detail...

Other things I liked:

I loved Song Yi's brother! I want a whole drama with him as the main character! At first he was mysterious, then he became cute and I really loved him! What I can't believe is that he, who was I think about 18 years old, was played by a 26 year-old guy! And it didn't even show (unlike Lee Min Ho in Heirs)!

I loved Do Min Joon and Lawyer Jang's relationship! It was adorable! Lawyer Jang was adorable!

I really didn't like Hwi Kyung at the beginning. But when he started investigating his brother and showed how smart he was, I fell in love with him! I honestly thought he would say 'My brother can't be like that.' and turn a blind eye to everything. But he proved how smart and strong he was! I'm proud of you Hwi Kyung!

Final Verdict: This was a good drama. The acting was outstanding! And the story was pretty interesting as well. I would highly recommend this drama! For me, it was worth the watch. If not the love story, it made for a good crime story!

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It ticks every box and more .

Swoon.

I watched You Who Came From the Stars (YWCFTS) purely because of the story line and boy was I not disappointed! I expect nothing less from men but a hot alien who has accumulated a wealth of knowledge , experience and literal wealth over the course of 400 years. That’s besides the point though.

I highly recommend this drama because the story line is very intriguing so a pull through is definite even for the picky viewers. The parallel arches of the two protagonists is very good and if you are a sucker for fate then this one is for the ages . The story is actually simple enough to follow and this is a K Drama with everything-. It’s a love story for the literal ages as it spans years , its a melodrama yet spiced with an evil chaebol villain and the social commentary on celebrity culture in Korea made this quite a wholesome story.. It has great morals and the script makes for great food for thought. I especially loved the comedy in this and was guaranteed a huge laugh which just makes this drama all the more approachable and quite good. To date - it’s one of the funniest dramas I have ever watched.

I think the highlight of this drama is how real and unaffected the female protagonist was written. She is not annoying in the slightest bit and everything she does makes sense albeit hilarious and there’s none of that noble idiocy that K Dramas seem to gravitate towards.There were some teeny plot holes that affected the rating of the story to be a 9.5 but nothing too major.

As for the acting and cast - very good. I could say perfect but going in I was a bit unsure about the compatibility of the two as the chemistry was a slow bubble at first and I think that’s down to Kim So Hyun baby face looks and Jun Hi Hyun elegant face which was a discrepancy at first but was actually perfect taken with context of the story. The casting directors really hit the jackpot with these two expressive actors ! Furthermore, supporting cast was great too . I particularly loved Park Hae Jin who plays the second lead and I plan to make it a point to watch his dramas.

The music is virtually non existent but what is there is perfectly fine.The instrumentals were stellar and flooring . What does take the space of the music is the stellar fashion. I was swooning for every outfit that the main cast wore . I actually take away a few styling quips from YWCFTS such as Lee Hwigeong’s ( Park Hae Jin) turtle neck and coat ensembles , Doo Min Joon’s (Kim So Hyun) structured coat collars and the ladies penchant for leather pants , belted blazers and tasteful sparkle . The fashion is a definite 10.

Rewatch value is a 10 out of 10 and I’m very stingy with rewatch value scores but I’m definitely watching the “severely beautiful” Cheon Song Yi and Do Min Joon again . There are some cult classic scenes and lines in this drama that are absolute gems to not be watched more than once .

Overall it was such a fluid watch and so much fun to watch too! And personally that’s what makes a good show in the end . Fluidity.

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Lots of talented familiar faces

If you are a first time watcher I suggest grabbing the Bluray version since it got few minutes extra content with every episode + small epilogue revealing a short emotional monologue or just a cute cut of a scene.
I knew what I was getting myself into yet I can't help but feel it's overrated. It's good but not great.

The good: Lots of talented familiar faces, big diverse cast. Great acting. Enjoyable contrast between the leads. Female lead personality reminds me of Han Ye Seul role in Couple or Trouble.

The bad: Long, really long! It takes forever for something significant to happen. Given its length, too much screen time was given to the main leads that the rest feels like less than a support character. You have a big cast full of diverse characters and mini sub stories yet barely anything shown from that. That's something I find modern dramas does better.
Male lead powers are problematic element that only leads to a weaker writing with plot holes.

The ugly: The villain character is just not good. It's the weakest part of the drama. Feels like there is a big contrast between how his character was written and the rest of the script.

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I can't say that it was the greatest drama I've ever watched but so far it's one of the most entertaining.

~STORY~
This drama is great because the story was engaging, and the story was engaging because...

...the ~CAST~ was great. Everyone had great chemistry and they were so at ease with each they never felt like they were or had to be someone else.

Those people saying that KSH was overshadowed by JJH are greatly mistaken. Yes there was a time that his acting was kind of off, I know one, but I think that just had something to do with the editing and technical side of things.

F-A-C-T >> no one overshadowed anyone, they just all fit together like a puzzle made in heaven.

~MUSIC~
was okay...it does not have the greatest OST and I just don't get why Hyorin's song wasn't as popular as the other, it sounded better.

~REWATCH VALUE~
Definitely

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This show isn't just about a man from the stars, but a romance made in the stars. The story does set up the two leads to be destined to fall in love and meant to be together. Now, normally I hate this kind of lead romance where it's "just meant to be", but dammit this relationship was pretty compelling. Both characters are given a pretty comprehensive background so the viewer understands what makes them the way they are in the present.

Initially I was skeptical of the plot because it sounded a lot like Queen In Hyun's Man. But oh well, since it has two of the biggest stars around, it's probably gonna be good, right? Yup it's pretty good. Cheon Song Yi is such a great character - so confident, such a braggart, but so confident of herself in a good way. Do Min Joon, such a fish out of water in Cheon Song Yi's presence. They were obviously meant to be right from the start. There is plenty of humour not just from the lead couple, also from the side characters.

Admittedly, the attractiveness of Kim Soo Hyun, Jeon Ji Hyun and Park Hae Jin play a huge part in the charm and popularity of their characters. But I stand by my opinion that they executed their parts with finesse and they carried the emotional weight of their characters. Jeon Ji Hyun, in particular, as an actress playing a haughty actress with characteristics that the public probably thinks she has, is hilarious. The character was written brilliantly, but some credit goes to her for playing it 100%. Kim Soo Hyun keeps picking great projects that keep his star going higher and higher.

The ending did leave me feeling unsatisfied, similar to the logical loopholes in Queen In Hyun's Man. But overall, it's a really entertaining show with a good balance of laughs and tears.

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